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The 2015-16 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) is the fourth in a series of national surveys which was released in December 2017. Earlier National Family Health Surveys were carried out in 1993 (NFHS-1), 1999 (NFHS-2) and 2006 (NFHS-3).

The Mental Healthcare Bill aims to provide improved and better healthcare for mentally ill patients and decriminalises suicide. The bill also ensures is to protect and restore property right of mentally ill persons

Indian healthcare industry is growing; still access to quality healthcare poses a serious challenge to the citizen’s states Deloitte report, 2016 on Medical Devices Making in India. The report further elaborates that the Indian healthcare industry is growing at a double digit rate but affordability remains an issue. Out of pocket expenditure is quite high, 61% and only 25% population has access to medical insurance in the country. Therefore, there is a need to increase affordability.

The WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, released in July 2015 lays emphasis on increasing taxes on tobacco to discourage people from smoking or help them to cut down and quit. There are a billion smokers worldwide. While many countries have extremely low tobacco tax rates, some have no special tobacco taxes at all, according to the WHO report.

It’s getting harder for mothers in India, according to a global ranking of the best and worst places to be a mom. India scored 140th place out of 179 countries, according to Save the Children’s 2015 report titled “State of the World’s Mothers” putting it behind neighboring Bangladesh.

Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) released the latest report that recommends a road map for the growth of insurance industries in India. Made under partnership with McKinsey & Company, it contains a fact-based view on the current state of the industry, its evolution over a period of time, key trends that will shape the industry in the next decade and therefore, the potential evolution.

The draft policy, released by Ministry of Health and Family, while seeking comments from various stakeholders, has stated that one of the fundamental policy questions of “our times is whether to pass a health rights bill making health a fundamental right- in the way that was done for education.”

AS one third of Indian children fail to receive full set of mandatory immunization, the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has asked policy makers to look toward Bangladesh if they want to improve health sector.

AS the World Health Organisation (WHO) applauds India for complete polio eradication, the country has been urged to make efforts to stop continued high measles disease burden to make global measles control a success.

AS economic cost attributed to tobacco use from all diseases in India amounted to Rs 1, 04,500 crore ($22.4 billions) in 2011, a study of India’s Ministry of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has called for support of prohibition of manufacture and sale of all forms of chewing tobacco as one of remedial measures to address the issue.

IN SPITE of spectacular economic growth in past two decades India’s rankin theHuman Development Index(HDI) remains at pitiful 136 out of 187 countries. Given vast disparity in the availability of basic healthcare facilities across the country, the influential India Infrastructure Report (IIR) describes India's health sector as story of ‘two Indias.’

TO widen and popularize biomedical research in medical colleges, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has come up with scheme encouraging health professionals to go for research.

As most of the biomedical research is confined to a few medical colleges and institutes in India, the Ministry has given incentives to encourage research activity in all medical colleges and institutions.

WHILE the use of antibacterial drugs has become widespread around the world, these drugs are rapidly becoming ineffective accelerating global health security emergency, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report said.

AS the World Health Organisation (WHO) applauds India for complete polio eradication, the country has been urged to make efforts to stop continued high measles disease burden to make global measles control a success.

AS the world is making progress in reducing malaria cases and deaths, the Ebola outbreak could reverse the results. “The Ebola outbreak has had a devastating impact on basic health service delivery in the most severely affected countries, including the ability to control malaria,” reveals findings of World malaria report 2104 released under WHO Global Malaria Programme.